LIBROS DEL AUTOR: freya mathews

6 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: freya mathews

  • The Dao of Civilization
    Freya Mathews
    The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. It calls on China to lead the world towards this new era by re-crafting its own civilization in accordance with its indigenous tap-root: Dao. ...
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    36,05 €

  • The Ecological Self
    Freya Mathews
     A compelling and fascinating account of how we must change our thinking about the environment, The Ecological Self is a classic of ecological and environmental thinking. This Routledge Classics edition includes a substantial new introduction by the author. ...
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    29,89 €

  • Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living
    Freya Mathews
    In Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living, eco-philosopher Freya Mathews livens up her theme – that the company of animals is indispensable to human existence – by way of the story of an anarchic but irresistible pig. ‘In this captivating story of a pig and a philosopher, Freya takes up the narratival mode of exposition that has recently engaged philosophers. Her account of ...
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    12,07 €

  • Journey to the Source of the Merri
    Freya Mathews
    On a sunny October morning in 1999, three friends set off to find the source of their local creek, the Merri. Starting where the Merri joins the Yarra River, they followed the watercourse through city, suburbs, outer industrial wastelands, farmscapes and the foothills of the Great Divide. Temples, goddesses, medieval churches, sacred birds, sanctuaries, holy waters and powerful...
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    14,90 €

  • For Love of Matter
    Freya Mathews
    A bold and original work in ecocosmology and metaphysics.In For Love of Matter Freya Mathews challenges basic assumptions of Western science, modern philosophy, and environmental philosophy, arguing that the environmental crisis is a symptom of a larger, metaphysical crisis. Western science rests on the premise that the world is an inert backdrop to human presence rather than a...
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    47,41 €

  • Ecology and Democracy
    Freya Mathews
    This book explores the possibilities of democracy, noting the relation between ecological morality and political structures or procedures and the question of the structure of decision-making and distribution of information in political systems. ...
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    95,08 €